About 96 percent of KRL’s revenues come from property taxes collected in Kitsap County. Small amounts come from timber taxes, fines and fees and grants and donations. KRL’s total budget for 2010 is about $9.8 million.

 

The library welcomes your questions, suggestions, compliments and complaints. To provide feedback please use the following forms:

 

• For questions about library materials, your library account, placing holds, homework help, or reference information please Ask a Librarian.
• To compliment a staff member or let us know how we can improve our service, please use our online Comment Form.
• To suggest a title for purchase or Interlibrary Loan, please fill out the Purchase Suggestion & Interlibrary Loan Form.

The library’s levy grew from $6,922,715 in 2001 to $9,254,000 in 2010. That represents an annual increase of about 3.3 percent. The impact on a typical property owner during that time was much smaller. Between 2001 and 2010, the actual library tax paid by the owner of a typical single-family home in the Silverdale area grew from $81.15 per year to $83.94, an average annual increase of about one third of 1 percent.

 

During the same period, the cost of materials and services the library uses was growing at an annual rate of about 7.3 percent.

Start/receive e-mail notices?

 

To receive email notices contact your library to provide your e-mail address and request e-mail notifications.

 

If you have stopped receiving your e-mail notices, check your spam filter. Make sure the address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is not blocked. Unfortunately, we cannot give a general set of instructions on how to do this for all mail programs as every email program has different ways of protecting specific email addresses (or "white-listing") so they will not be filtered.

Because the cost of library materials and services was increasing far faster than library income, KRL asked voters for a tax increase in 2007. That levy proposal was defeated.

In response, the library completely reworked its budget, cutting spending to bring it in line with revenue growth. Open hours were reduced at all nine branch libraries. The budget for buying new books, magazines, CDs and DVDs was cut. Money to upgrade existing technology and purchase new technology was reduced. Building maintenance money was cut. Staff size was reduced through attrition. The entire KRL staff accepted a pay freeze in 2009 to help balance the budget.

As a result of all these cuts, our budget is balanced, but our services are sustainable only at the most basic levels. If there is no levy increase, KRL will face more cuts in hours and will have to consider closure of one or more branch libraries within a few years.

Place a Hold on an item not currently available for checkout in my home branch?

 

Placing a Hold tells the library to save a book for you; the library then notifies you when the item is available for pick up at your home branch. You must log in before you can place a hold.

 

To place a hold:

 

1. Click the Place Hold link next to the item you want on your search hit list.
2. Log in if you have not previously done so. The Submit Hold window will appear.
3. Select the library where you would like to pick up the item.
4. Click Place Hold to complete the process, or click Clear Selection to start over.

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Why do I have to keep putting in my number repeatedly when placing holds?

 

You don’t! Log in to the library catalog using the login boxes in the upper right corner of the catalog home page before you start searching or performing other tasks, the system will then remember your number during the current online session.

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Change the pickup location on a hold?

 

To change the hold pickup location:

 

1. Click on My Account, click Review My Account. A new window appears.
2. Scroll down and click Edit All Holds.
3. Select the titles you want to Edit.
4. Scroll down and select a Pickup location.
5. Click Edit Selected Holds to make the changes.

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Suspend or Un-suspend a hold?

 

Suspended Holds feature: Use the suspended holds feature for holds you do not want to receive until a later date. For example, if you are going on vacation you can suspend a hold and continue to move up in the hold list until you are number one or until your suspension date expires. Once your hold is unsuspended, it will become active again.

 

To suspend one or more holds:

 

1. Click on My Account, click Review My Account. A new window appears.
2. Log in if you have not previously done so. The Submit Hold window appears.
3. Scroll down and click Edit All Holds.
4. Select the titles for suspension.
5. Scroll down and select a Pickup Location.
6. Click on the calendar gadget to select both suspension start and end dates.
7. Click Edit Selected Holds.

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Cancel a hold?

 

To can cancel a hold in your account:

 

1. Click on My Account, click Review My Account. A new window appears.
2. Log in if you have not previously done so.
3. Under Holds, select the Cancel check box for hold items to be canceled.
4. Click Cancel Selected Holds.

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Requesting an item not in the catalog?

 

Please fill out the Purchase Suggestion & Interlibrary Loan Form to suggest KRL purchase a title not in the catalog, or to request KRL borrow an item, through Interlibrary Loan, from another library system. Purchase Suggestion Interlibrary Loan Form.

KRL is proposing to increase the library property tax levy for 2011 by about 13.5 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The exact amount of the tax rate increase will depend in part on the final determination of the value of property in Kitsap County. We expect our base levy rate for 2011 would be about 34.5 cents, so a 13.5-cent increase would raise the rate to 48 cents.

Without a levy increase, KRL will raise about $9.7 million from property taxes in 2011. The 13 cent rate increase would generate an additional $3.65 million for KRL.

Logging in allows you to access your library account, view your checkouts, renew items, edit and place holds, and update your contact information. You can log in from the Library Catalog Home page or other pages on the KRL website where log in is requested. When you wish to change information using My Account, you may be prompted to log in if you haven’t already done so. This login is only valid for the current transaction.

 

Login to the catalog?

 

To log in to your library account:

 

1. The login boxes are located in the upper right corner of the catalog home page.
2. Enter your Library Card Number and Password.
3. Click Login to Your Library Account.

 

Log out of the catalog?

 

To log out of your library account:

 

1. Click the Logout button located in the upper right corner.
2. Be sure to click Logout before you leave the computer if you are using a library computer.

This would be an added tax. The library's rate would be about 48 cents per $1,000 of assessed value in 2011.

Thereafter, the increase each year would once again be governed by the limits in state law. Generally, KRL's levy would increase 1 percent plus the value of new construction in Kitsap County. Generally, as property values rise, the KRL tax rate falls.

 

Access MY ACCOUNT?

 

In My Account you can view your current library transactions, renew items, edit and place holds, suspend and cancel holds, update your contact information, and change your Password.

 

To access My Account , log in with your library card number and password on the Library Catalog Home page or other pages on the KRL website where log in is requested. When you wish to change information using My Account, you may be prompted to log in if you haven’t already done so. This login is only valid for the current transaction.

 

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Change/update my address?

 

To submit a change of address, login to MY ACCOUNT.

 

1. In My Account, Click Change My Address. A change of address form will open in a separate window.
2. Fill out the form with required information, and click update.
3. Your address will be manually updated by library staff within 7 to 10 days.

 

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Find or change my password?

 

Your Password was created at the time you requested a library card and consists of a 4 to 10 characters.

 

If you do not kow your Password, please contact your library to acquire or reset your Password.

 

To change your Password, log in to My Account.

 

1. Click User Password Change.
2. Log in, if required.
3. Enter your Library Card #.
4. In the Password box, enter in your current Password.
5. In the Enter New Password box, enter a new Password no longer than 10 characters.
6. In the Re-enter New Password box, enter the same Password.
7. Click Change Your Password.
8. To start over, click Clear Selection.

 

If you haven't already logged in, you may be prompted to log in to the Library Catalog when you attempt to change information in My Account. This is only valid for the current transaction.

 

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To Renew my checked out items?

 

To renew items currently checked out on your account, log in to My Account:

 

1. Click Review My Account.
2. Select the check box next to the items you want to renew.
3. Click Renew Selected Items or click Clear Selection to start over.

That depends on the value of your property. Here are some examples:

If your assessed value is: Your tax increase in 2011 would be:
$175,000 $23.62

$200,000 $27
$225,000 $30.37
$250,000 $33.75
$275,000 $37.12
$300,000 $40.50
$350,000 $47.25
$400,000 $54
$450,000 $60.75
$500,000 $67.50
$600,000 $81
$750,000 $101.25

The basic formula: Divide your assessed valuation by 1,000 and multiply by .135. So a property valued at $100,000 would pay $13.50 (100,000 divided by 1,000 equals 100. 100 times .135 equals $13).

No matter what the value of your property, the proposed increase in the library tax would increase your total property tax bill by less than 1.2 percent.

To Use My Lists:

 

To use My Lists, log in to your library account using the log in boxes on the Library Catalog Home page. Click on My Lists located in the toolbar at the top of the screen.

 

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My Lists FAQs

 

You can create lists of saved item records by using the My Lists option. You must log into the KRL catalog to create a list or to access your existing lists.

 

 

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Creating a My List:

 

If you have not yet created a My List, you must create at least one permanent list before you can save items to it. When you select a title, the "Create a list before attempting to save an item" message displays.

 

To creat a list:

1. Log in to your Library Account using the login boxes in the upper right corner.
2. Click My Lists located in the catalog toolbar.
3. In the New List box, enter the name you want to assign to the new list, and click Add List.
4. Begin a search to find titles to add to the permanent list.

 

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Making a My List Active:

 

You must select a list within My List as the active list before you can add titles to the list or remove titles from the list.

 

To make a list active:

 

1. Log in to your library account, if you haven’t already done so.
2. Click My Lists located in the catalog toolbar.
3. In the Current Lists field, select the list you want to be the active list.
4. Click Make List Active.

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Adding items to My List:

 

To add items to My List:

1. Search for an item in the library catalog
2. From your search result hit list, click the check box next to Add to My List of the item you wish to add to your list. This marks the item.
3. Marked items can be ‘unmarked’ by un-checking the checkbox next to My List.
4. Marked records are added to My List.
5. To view marked records, click on My Lists in the catalog toolbar.

 

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Printing items from My List:

 

The catalog software does not offer a simple print option for printing lists, however, you can print a list by copying and pasting it into a word processing program.

 

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Placing a hold from My Lists:

 

From the My List page, click the Details/Hold link below the item you want to put on hold. From the item’s details page, click Place Hold to create the hold.

 

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Removing Items from My Lists:

 

From the My Lists page you can remove all or some of the items in a list. To remove specific items, select the check box next to the item then click Remove Checked Titles. To remove all items, click Remove All Titles.

 

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Renaming a Saved Record List:

 

To rename a permanent list from the My Lists page:

 

1. From the My Lists page, locate the name of the permanent list to be renamed.
2. In the Current Lists field, select the list to be renamed.
3. Click Rename List. A dialog box displays.
4. Enter the new name for the list and click OK, or click Cancel to start over.

 

More and more people have been coming to the library, despite cuts in operating hours. Usage has spiked in the past year as people used KRL as a resource during tough economic times.

If the library continues to be held to a 1 percent annual levy increase In the coming years, it will become impossible for KRL to maintain its current level of service. The system will have to identify further budget cuts, and those are likely to include additional reductions in hours and consideration of closing one or more of KRL’s smaller branch libraries.

 

The Library Catalog displays books on the most popular best seller lists, including books that are not in the library's catalog. To see if the title is available in the KRL catalog click Details for additional information. If a title is not in the library catalog, you can submit a Purchase Suggestion or ILL Request using the following link: Purchase Suggestion & Interlibrary Loan Request.

Click on the following to view reading lists ...

New at KRL

  

Children's Book Lists

 

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From the Catalog's front page, the following reading lists/links are available:

 

Best Seller Lists?

 

Best seller lists are provided and maintained by an information service based on a profile of your library. The information on the lists is updated frequently.

Recommended Reading Lists?

Recommended Reading lists include award-winning and book group titles, some or all may be in your library's catalog. If the title is available from your library, click Details/Hold for additional information. If a title is not in the library catalog, you may recommend the library purchase the item by clicking on the To Suggest Purchase or Interlibrary Loan link in the library catalog toolbar.

 

Recommended reading lists are provided and maintained by an information service based on a profile of your library. The information is updated when titles are added to particular lists, or when new lists become available.

Two reasons.

First, we heard from some taxpayers in 2007 that they voted "No" because they felt the library was asking for too much. So one of the guiding principles we followed in creating the new levy proposal was to ask for less. While the 2007 proposal would have generated about $6.7 million per year, the new proposal would generate about $3.65 million.

Second, we can do more with less. The actions KRL took to balance its budget reset our spending to a lower level. We are no longer operating by living off our reserves and spending more than we take in. So every new dollar we raise can go to program and service improvements and for capital needs.

 

To suggest a title for purchase or to request the library borrow an item from another library system, please click on the link To Suggest Purchase or Interlibrary Loan and complete the form.

 

We are glad you think we’re doing just fine. KRL is proud of our responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

We have made cuts in recent years that we thought would have the least impact on our library users. When we cut hours of operation, we cut the hours when the fewest number of people were in the libraries. But still, our cuts have been noticed. More than 1,800 people responded to a KRL survey last summer and their responses indicated they want to see us add more operating hours, spend more on books, and restore other cuts.

It comes down to what kind of library you want Kitsap County to have. Right now, we are struggling to offer basic services. The levy will enhance our ability to serve the people of Kitsap County.

Search for an item?

 

Choose how you want to search the catalog by either clicking the radio button next to Keyword or next to Begins With. Enter your terms into the Search For box and click on one of the following indexes:

 

• Words or phrase
• Author
• Title
• Subject
• Magazines, Newspapers

 

Choosing Keyword searches for any word (or phrase) in the title or description of an item. The results list will be organized newest acquired to oldest.

Choosing Begins With brings up your search term(s) in an alphabetical list.

To narrow your search to a specific library branch, select a library from the drop-down menu. Choose ALL to search all libraries.

To return to Search/Home page from other search pages, click on New Search or Search/Home.

Click Advanced Search to further refine your initial search.

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Search for an exact phrase?

 

To find an exact phrase (such as a short story or song title) enclose the phrase in double quotes.

 

For example, to find the short story Be Cool to the Pizza Dude from the collection of personal philosophies titled, This I Believe, enter the following in the search box: "be cool to the pizza dude."

 

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Search for an item by format such as: DVD, Compact Disc (CD), Audio Cassette, or CD-ROM?

 

To search the collection for a particular format use the Advanced Search option to limit to a specific format (DVD, Compact Disc, Cassette, Playaway, Downloadable, etc…).

 

You can also use the following shortcut on the basic search page to search by format:

 

1. Choose a Keyword search.
2. Type in a word or phrase that describes what you are looking for (Bob Dylan).
3. Then add an “and” to your search phrase plus the format type. Example: Bob Dylan and compact disc.
4. Click the Words or Phrase button.
5. This search retrieves all cd’s with Bob Dylan as an author in the library catalog.

This type of search will work for any format. See the following examples:

 

• The Wire and dvd (retrieves all dvds of this popular television show)
• Grisham and cassette (retrieves all audio books on cassette written by Grisham)
• Martha Grimes and disc (retrieves all audio books on Compact Disc (CD) by Grimes)
• Microsoft Excel and cd-rom (retrieves all Microsoft Excel titles with a cd-rom)

 

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Use wildcard characters?

 

The ? symbol is used as a substitute for a missing character in a search term, usually when you are unsure of a spelling or when you want to find two forms of one word. For example, if you enter wom?n, the catalog locates records containing either "woman" or "women."

 

The $ symbol is used to truncate a search term so you can search multiple variations of a term. The $ can represent a single, many, or no characters. When more than one term in a search expression is truncated, each term is searched for all variations.

 

For example, if you enter psycho$, the catalog locates the records containing terms such as “psychology,” “psychologist,” “psychological,” “psychoanalytical.”

 

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Choose search words?

 

When choosing search terms, try using 2 or 3 keywords. Using more words might slow down your search and return too few items. Using fewer words might return too many items.

 

For example, the search term “fishing” might return too many results. Instead, try” freshwater fishing” or “saltwater fishing.”

 

The catalog is NOT case sensitive; you don't need to type capital letters. And punctuation, such as an apostrophe, is ignored.

 

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Access more information about a title?

 

Click on item title to view the details about an item.

 

• Number of Holds tells you how many library patrons are ahead of you on the Hold list.
• Place Hold tells the library to save the book for you and notify you when you can pick up the item.
• My List adds the item to your personalized lists. You can then print or e-mail the item's information from My Lists.
• Find More by This Author retrieves a list of titles by all authors in the selected record.
• Find More on These Topics retrieves a list of titles with subjects similar to those of the selected record.
• Nearby Items on Shelf retrieves a list of titles that you might see on the same shelf if you were standing in front of the bookshelf.

 

Item Information tab displays a summary of item information and library's holdings.

Holdings shows which libraries have a copy of the item and lets you know whether the item is checked in or out. The first library that displays is the current library.

A Look Inside tab displays book reviews, author interviews, cover jackets, tables of contents, book summaries, author biographies, first chapters and excerpts, electronic texts, and database information.

Catalog Record tab displays cataloging information. The subject terms provided in the catalog record provide links to other titles with similar subject matter.

 

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Search for Electronic Books?

 

To search for Electronic books in the catalog use the Advanced Search option. Enter either a title, author, keyword, or subject then in the Format field, choose Downloadable.

To access a Downloadable title…

1. Click on the title to view item details.
2. Click on the Catalog Record tab to access the Downloadable link.
3. In the HTTP Field click “Click here to access material.”

The Downloadable collection (electronic books) can also be accessed from the KRL homepage. Click on the link to Downloadable Digital Media in the right menu.

More cuts will be coming.

KRL has already made the most obvious and the easiest cuts to make, such as buying fewer books each year and deferring the purchase of new technology and maintenance on our buildings.

Our collection of books and other materials that we lend to the public is the heart of the library. We can’t cut collection dollars any further and still have what people expect to be able to find at the library. Spending on reference materials and services, technology and maintenance has also been cut about as much as it can be.

Without a levy increase in 2011, KRL would have to start looking at further cuts in operating hours, and within a few years, would have to consider closing one or more of its nine branches to consolidate and economize our operations.

If this tax increase passes, we believe KRL will NOT have to ask voters for another increase for more than 10 years.

We will:

• Add back Saturday morning hours at each of our nine branches, and each branch would be able to add another three hours per week, wherever it is most needed by the public it serves.

• Increase our budget for purchasing books and other materials that we lend to the public,

making more materials available and reducing the wait time for popular items.

• Restore some kind of program for live homework help for Kitsap students

• Enhance our technology by offering more computers, replacing them more often, upgrading our software and improving our web site and online catalog.

 

• Spend enough to maintain our equipment and facilities in good working order.

• Build new libraries to replace branches in Silverdale and Kingston that are too small for their communities and in old, inefficient buildings

• Help the City of Port Orchard achieve its goal of building a new library.

• Devote funds for major improvements, major maintenance needs or energy efficiencies at other branch libraries.

We have a detailed breakdown of how the levy money would be spent during the first 10 years.

All county property owners were taxed to build the Sylvan Way library in the 1970s. KRL owns the Silverdale branch and is responsible for its replacement. All county taxpayers own the facilty that houses the Kingston branch. So it is appropriate that replacement buildings in both communities be funded county-wide.

Kitsap Regional Library is an interconnected system of nine branches throughout the county. People who use our system often use more than one branch and they benefit from other branches. When people place books on hold, the copy they get most likely comes from another branch. For example, about 80 percent of the books requested by patrons at the Bainbridge Island branch library come from the other eight library branches.

The expanded branch libraries in Silverdale, Kingston and Port Orchard would benefit all KRL patrons. The additional space would allow the system to increase the size of its collection and make more materials available to all patrons with less wait time. So you will see a benefit even if you never set foot in one of the new libraries.

KRL also plans to set aside space in the new Silverdale branch library for a centralized genealogical collection and research center that would serve the entire county.

There is one other significant point: KRL is expecting that local donors in Silverdale and Kingston will make significant contributions toward the cost of each new building. The City of Port Orchard will pay half the cost of the new Port Orchard library.

Like libraries across the country during the recession, use of Kitsap Regional Library facilities has been steadily increasing, even after the system cut hours of operation. Our patrons have used our libraries to seek training, job research, networking, computer use and basic book borrowing (in lieu of purchasing). This traffic increase is a testament to the value and services the library provides for our communities.

Even before this surge, the KRL system was in dire need of additional space.

This should give you an idea of the comparative need at Silverdale and Kingston. KRL looked at the number of people in each branch libraries service area. Silverdale serves 9.97 people per square foot of space; Kingston serves 6.21 people per square foot. The average of the other seven branch libraries is 2.1 people per square foot. The need for larger buildings in those two communities is immediate.

Today’s economic environment is a perfect time to undertake the Silverdale and Kingston library projects. Recent public construction projects have come in below estimates. Economists are predicting a slow economic recovery in Kitsap County. There is so little work for contractors that building today is a bargain. In addition, Kitsap residents who work in the construction trades would benefit from the jobs that would be created to build these two new libraries.

When you create separate, smaller taxing districts to support a new facility, you generally have to sell 20-year bonds to pay for the building. Over the life of a 20-year bond, you would pay significantly more than the actual cost of the library building in interest on those bonds.

 

KRL’s levy proposal would pay for both replacement buildings in Silverdale and Kingston within six years. Taxpayers would save a significant amount from lower finance costs.

 

KRL estimates that taxpayers would pay between $10 million and $14 million more for the building projects in Kingston and Silverdale if we financed them using long-term bonds. That in itself is a savings of about a third of the total cost of the proposed levy.

In addition, placing separate bond levies on the ballot would cost KRL at least $120,000 for the elections. That money would be much better used to pay for library services.

In the case of Port Orchard, the City of Port Orchard would be the lead agency in building the new library there.

KRL is trying to make sure we are accounting for every possible contingency in identifying the cost of the Kingston and Silverdale libraries and the construction schedule.

If the levy passes in November 2010, KRL would initiate the process to hire an architect for the Kingston branch immediately. It is our hope to be able to break ground in spring 2012 and to open the new branch by fall of 2013.

Because we do not yet have a specific site (talks are ongoing with Kitsap County about a site on the Silverdale Community Campus), our plans now call for beginning work on the Silverdale library after the Kingston process begins. Assuming Silverdale starts about 15 months after Kingston, the Silverdale library would be ready in spring 2015.

But there are several unknowns about both building sites that could affect when KRL could start construction. In both cases, KRL will act as quickly as it can to construct properly sized libraries in both communities and will pay no more than is absolutely necessary to make that happen.

The proposed Port Orchard library will be built atop a proposed downtown parking garage. The current city plan is to have that parking garage completed by late 2013 or early 2014. KRL funds for the new library would be available to the City in 2014 and once a design is completed and a building permit has been issued for the facility.

That will vary quite a bit depending on the needs of each branch. Kitsap Regional Library only owns two branches, Sylvan Way and Silverdale. It provides library services at the other branch libraries through agreements with the owners of the buildings.

Other branches will get varying sums, depending on their identified needs. But each community library will get access to some funds from the levy during the next 10 years for building improvements or energy efficiencies.

The state law that created the public library system (RCW 27.12.270) specifies that every library established or maintained under this act “shall be free for the use of the inhabitants of the governmental unit in which it is located, subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the trustees find necessary to assure the greatest benefit to the greatest number.”

KRL just completed a five-year strategic plan. Part of the process of developing that plan involved getting ideas from citizens all around the county through public meetings at each branch and through a public survey.

What people told KRL through that process is that they want the libraries to open longer hours. They want KRL to buy more books and other materials. But they also want better library buildings.

Being open a few more hours per week won’t meet the needs of the library system going forward. And KRL can’t expand its collection significantly until there is more space in its branches to house more books and other materials. That's why KRL wants to address capital issues in this levy, not just operations.

Some people think the Internet has made libraries obsolete, that fewer people are reading now and that kids now just watch TV and play video games.

Yes, you can find information on the Internet. But much of that information is commercial and some of it is available only with paid subscriptions. Often the nugget of information you need is hidden in hundreds of hits you get in a Google search.

Libraries are still a valued and needed community institution. That's why libraries across the country have experienced a spike in library use during the past 18 months. In these times more than ever, people see the value of libraries, which offer free access to information, books, music and videos as well as to the Internet. It’s been no different in Kitsap County.

Despite cutbacks on branch hours, KRL patrons have steadily increased their use of library materials. Circulation in 2009 was 7 percent higher than it was five years earlier, despite the 11 percent cut in operating hours. And circulation is up another 2 percent system wide so far in 2010.

As far as children go, KRL’s 2009 summer reading program for children and teens set records for participation.

Kitsap voters approved a levy increase for the library in 1979. Since then, the growth of the library’s levy has followed the limits in state law. KRL’s tax rate is significantly below the 50 cents per $1,000 assessed value authorized by the state for library systems.

The state of Washington has special programs for property owners who are elderly or disabled or who have trouble paying their property taxes.

Property owners who are 61 or older, who are disabled from employment or who have 100 percent service disability from the military, are eligible for reductions in their property taxes if they earn $35,000 or less a year. Depending on income, you may be eligible to have the assessed value of your home reduced by more than $50,000. That would reduce your total tax bill.

In addition, if you have owned your home for at least five years and if your annual income is $57,000 or less, you are eligible for a state program that allows you to defer half your annual property tax. That deferred tax would have to be paid upon your death or when you sell your home.

If you think you may qualify for any of these programs and wish to participate, contact the Kitsap County Assessor’s Office, 360-337-7160.